of me that i'm going out there so they can walk down the street safe. we're going to go home now. sdmree is coming out right now. rare left-hand side. >> it's looking good, ryan. >> okay. >> go, go, go. go right here. >> give me a hand. ♪ ♪ we're going to let them -- are we going to let them bring us down ♪ ♪ hell no ♪ bust a party every night and

every day ♪ ♪ either way ♪ here we go, here we go ♪ the roof is on fire and it's ready to blow ♪ >> i work for the boston police department. my name is tariq. i am currently assigned to the youth violence strike force, aka the gang unit. i work what we call first half shift. that's from 4:00 to midnight. i feel like it was my destiny to do this. however, i'm a husband, a father, and i have two kids, jalen and kaden. sometimes on the night shift several days will go by where i don't really see my boys. i'll come home, and they're sleeping, and -- >> let's get ready for conceal

school. >> off to school in the morning. >> going to make the bus, right? >> then they're coming home from school, and i'm going to work. >> you laid out all their loathes and everything, right? >> it's just like a constant seeing each other in passing or not seeing each other at all. obviously i miss being more involved, you know, with their lives, but my wife, my boys are the whole reason for my existence. to keep them safe.ng in my power >> threaten the little boy and point a gun at a child. >> in that area it's infamous for gang violence, gun violence.

>> male with a white shirt wearing a red -- >> pointing out the obvious, huh? >> trying to get the first -- >> [ bleep ]. >> cell phone call. the caller is -- i tried to call back several times. >> do we have any information on the caller? >> it's very hard to crack the wall of silence in that neighborhood. >> all right. you wasn't outside, was you? all right. okay. >> you know, you try to get information about anything that happens around that area, no one is really going to talk too much to the police around there. >> supposed to be a person with a gun beating up a 14-year-old. >> no one -- no victims coming forward. right now it's just kind of a

wash. >> someone was pointing a firearm at your kid, it shouldn't be personal to you. it damn sure becomes that much more personal for me. >> of all the guys on the street, one used to threaten a child and go straight to the top of the night gang unit's most wanted list. for the fugitive unit the case they're on today is a dangerous one. the suspect is joseph cupa, said to be on the run in the grove hall section of roxbury. he served eight years for manslaughter and now he is wanted for bailing drugs and assault and battery with a dangerous wing weapon. >> joseph cooper, after doing interviews we received information that he has made statements to the affect that he was going to shoot at the police. i'm going to put the whole unit on this case. probably six cars. we'll say two officers to a car. that should be enough to do it and to milwaukee a car stop if

we need to make a car stop. >> the native son ryan mason there's extra incentive. >> in my neighborhood in my section of the city of boston they pride themselves looking out for the kids that grew up in that neighborhood. you do as muches you can to make sure that those families and those children, those senior citizens and everybody is protected. that's what's important. >> mason is part of the team of a dozen officers searching for cooper. the interviews they've done have made it clear just how dangerous the fugitive is so it's all hands on deck. >> this sent going to be easy. it's more than one person that said they've seen him with a firearm and that he definitely would shoot it out with police because he is not going back to jail again, so -- >> sergeant detective albert sets up on point. while mason establishes a moving perimeter. from there it's a waiting game.

>> i got a suspect. light blue shirt. >> you still got him. 5'11". yep. >> i don't know. >> where is he? >> all right. i'm looking. i'm looking. i don't see him. >> where is he? play close.

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>> suspect joseph cooper is already serving time in jail. now he is wanted for assault and battery, and word on the street is he would rather shoot is out with the cops than go back to prison. >> you have someone who doesn't want to be caught. >> where is he? >> you have a unit that is trying to catch that person. >> where is he? >> around both of those two fractions is a community. >> you have to take on their

safety as your priority. >> all right. i'm looking. i'm looking. i don't see him. >> it's kind of the mantra of our unit. the plan to be ready for whatever comes. we just don't know. >> he could be under the bus, you know? >> he is not -- he must have gone into one of those buildings. >> it's a rare day off for the gang unit. along for the ride is fugitive unit officer win ston. the department wide reebok fitness challenge is approaching fast, and the competitive juices are already flowing. >> you guys doing the fitness challenge? >> yep. i am. you guys got a team for the fugitive unit? >> we got the dream team.

ryan, myself, brian, and mike mccue. >> it's me, d, jay, and joe. >> we got ryan. that's all i'm going to say. >> [ bleep ]. >> he can't do it all. >> can't do it all. >> going to let rooen do the whole competition by himself. >> ryan, go. do the push-ups, run, everything, brooen. just piggy back him at the end. >> so me and you and d combined. look at this guy talking. ryan do the running. i'm doing the pull-ups. >> you can't even reach the pull-ups. >> dude, come on. >> how many you do this morning many. >> i did 25. >> fugitive unit, we don't even need a whole team to beat you guys. >> we'll see. >> where is kaden?

ah! got you. >> you stick up. >> i got you. >> let's go. let's go. >> i lost track. >> yeah. i go in at 4:00. sdmru know when i can't stand when you do that, right? i zoo i know you hate the fact that i do details on my days off, but i try to spend, you know, as much time as i can with you and the boys when, you know, during the week, so it's like when i have a day off, have i to try to do something like overnight. >> yeah, but, like, the boys are growing up so fast. next thing you know, boom, they're teenagers, and you wake up and you're, like, oh, i worked and i worked and then i kind of missed out on certain things. i know we need money, but i feel like they need you more. especially jalen. >> the biggest challenge about being a dad is juggling work and my two kids jalen and kaden.

my son jalen is my oldest. he was diagnosed with autism. he is the most loving, caring kid you could ever, ever meet. >> jalen. >> your favorite. >> hi. >> we take jalen to a highly trained therapist six days a week, and it's almost an hour drive each way. >> who is that? panther? jay, who is this? who is is it? >> remember how he used to stare out the window and not say anything at all, and then be off on the corner and not play with anybody or talk to anybody? >> now just to see where he is coming from. >> curious george. good boy. >> just to hear his language progress is so awesome.

elmoo says a? cow. good. mickey mouse. >> watching jaylen do his session, it's something that i can't describe. for him to have a rigorous day like he has waking up at 7:00 in the morning, going to school until 3:45 and then going to another series of sessions for another four hours, i just see a trooper. >> sit for one more minute, and then we'll be all done. doing a nice job. >> he is literally my idol. >> who is that? >> hi, dad. >> did you have fun? >> did you have a good time? >> bye, guys. have a good day. >> thank you so so much. >> no problem. >> come on, buddy. >> the day is competitive being in the fugitive unit now. you see your old friends who are still in the gang unit, and it's the robbery, that competition.

like you guys don't get guns off the street. we do. you say, hey, who arrested murderers? we do. you have that competition, that level of respect at the same time. >> the gang unit is pulling up right now. >> whoopz. you guys -- >> no. >> i saw the car here. we were going to hit it earlier too. >> really? >> classic. [ bleep ]. >> us and the fugitive unit, we share a lot of information. sometimes we end up at the same house looking for the same kid. >> we are competitive, but we also, you know, are working towards the same goal. you know, taking bad guys off the streets. >> wanted on charges that include assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. a tip capable in this morning that he is hiding out with some relatives in dorchester. >> hard knock.

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>> fugitive union sxit gang unit at a house in dorchester with intel that rodney wilkes mtd on multiple charges could be hiding out here. >> give it a hard knock. >> come downstairs. >> back inside. back inside. >> where did he go? >> let's go. >> any weapons on you? >> can you drop down that --

>> you got two warntsz, bro. assault and battery, dangerous weapon, and trespass. that's for the incident that happened a couple of weeks ago over on brookledge. you weren't taking a jump, were you? >> where he. >> damn, gang unit and fugitive unit. >> what time -- >> let's see. let's see. >> we were actually doing police work at that time. >> you talk a lot of trash, but at the end of the day the fugitive unit had a arrest. the arrest was ours. >> where you guys heading at next? >> we can't tell you guys where we're heading at next. >> fwood job, guys. >> see you guys. >> in roxbury, the other fugitive union et team is constitutional on the tail of joseph cooper, a dane russ ex-conwanted on assault and drug charges. >> fugitive investigations like this one you need to be

methodical in your approach and as tactical as we can. it's incredibly important to be patient. >> believing the target to be armed and dangerous, the cops take no chances. with six ub marked cars in a strategic grid staking out the wrar where cooper was last spotted -- >> front right now. >> all right. we got on the ground. >> okay. it's like he had a camp or something there. >> we have to show you something out here. >> believe it or not, he is -- like he is a camp counselor, but he looks close. >> you know, tell him whatever. you know, you check all the camps. >> they come out right away

because there's a lot of it is kids around, and we're not 100%, okay? >> once he walks in here, just try to hold the perimeter. >> until we see what he does. >> a man who might be a violent criminal surrounded by a group of children. even for the fugitive wrun it, it doesn't get much riskier than this. >> every single day these families put their children out on these streets, and they expect us to protect them. it's a burden to carry, but i'm extremely proud to be able to carry that burden. >> [ bleep ]. >> he is a camp counselor. [ bleep ]. >> so we're going to pull the plug on this for today. we're going to get more stuff on

the tactical end. that's probably go take us to the end of the day. we'll let them do their work, and hopefully we come up with something that we can get back on tomorrow. >> thanks. >> that is sexy today. >> the only thing that's missing is like a mullet. >> we grew up in similar neighborhoods not too far apart from one another, and there were so many older guys in the neighborhood who looked out for you, i had the benefit of a lot of them taking me under their wing and giving me a lot of good advice, so the chief called. he wants us to meet with one of the kids from the neighborhood, a kid gavin mccartney. he has been sick for a while. >> the chief even though he is retired still running the cops for kids with cancer. >> yeah. >> what is gavin's issue, exactly? >> gavin has nomaglastoma, so he has tumors on the brain.

he has an interest in policing, so let's go over and meet him and his brothers. >> definitely. >> i think as i've gotten older, i try to look after the kids who grow up in the neighborhood i grew up in and other neighborhoods in the city. >> that's what we got. >> you know ryan doesn't eat beef? ryan eats, like, beans, fwras, nuts, berries. >> so what do you do as a cop? >> we work in the fugitive unit. it's an adult version of hide and seek. >> i'm brave enough to do anything. i'll face a robber with bombs, a robber with a gun. >> i think a robber if he ever saw you, he would just run. he would be scared because you're a tough kid. >> i would kick him. >> we bot this fitness challenge coming up. it's a team of four guys. we're hoping you can coach our team. can you coach our team? >> don't do it. >> come on, please. >> don't to it.

>> please. >> yes. fwloo so we'll see you at the fitness challenge. give me a high five. >> harder. >> that's a good one. >> they got you. i knew they would get you. you talk all tough. big bad mean ryan. >> it's like the perfect blend of [ bleep ] and rich. >> the hot spots of boston's gang activity can change by the hour. earlier tonight a 19-year-old gang member was murdered. now sources are telling the police retaliation will play out in the south end.

>> we're looking over here. >> yeah. he saw us. he definitely -- >> he is going hard. >> we noticed a big wooden booth like they were waiting for us to leave. >> remember that we stopped on bail street and then he stopped in front of his house? i think that was the car they were driving. the mercedes. >> let's make your way over here. we're going to talk to these guys. >> i think this kid got a warrant right here. [ male announcer ] when you wear dentures you may not know

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>> we're going to talk to -- >> expecting retaliation for the shooting. the night gang unit has pulled over a familiar car. >> i think this kid got a warrant right here. >> got get to. >> as soon as i saw him, i knew that i had to get inside this vehicle. i know what he is known for on the streets. >> yeah, he was on that warrant list that they always print out for, like -- >> really? >> yeah. >> outstanding warrants are one way to get gang members off the streets. another is illegal weapons possession. >> all right. >> knife right here? all right. >> based on their body language and how nervous they became, you know they immediately started sweating and everybody was

shaking, nervously. >> you know, which are telltale signs that there's something inside the vehicle. >> wron if you guys remember we found a big bag of rounds. that was the kid that was suspected to have ran on them. >> but tonight the car is clean, and as it happens, the fwi in the back seat squared up with the courts just yesterday. >> that's never what happens. that's like one in a million. chance of this kid clearing up his warrants a day before. >> the driver, though, is taking a ride. >> you're going to go to jail without driving without a license, because we saw you driving. ? you're sitting in the car with the key in the ignition. >> save it. another day.

>> this gang game, this gun game it's a very dangerous game. as a police officer, you read the writing on the wall. you can't just lock the problems away. it's bigger than that. it's actually making an impact on the community. >> you're always competing on something. work. fwot to work. it's always a competition. >> you worried about -- >> we worried about anything? >> you afraid? >> no. >> time for that donut. >> you got old-fashioned? >> yeah, i'm the old-fashioned. i went with a glazed donut. all my life, and i'm still in shape. >> what do you think winston is eating right now? >> protein bars.

>> we fwt to come up with a name too. >> dough boys. >> all right. now, here we go. let me see you put the shirt on. stwroo you got -- >> no, month, no, no. you have to fix your shoulder first. >> okay? >> grab your button. jaylen. >> there are some days where you want to just either go to your room and bury your face in the pillow or you just want to go outside and scream. >> jaylen, go get your shoes outside for me. >> what are you doing? what are you doing? >> i think i have more difficulty with my youngest son kaden than jaylen. >> you just ate my orange. >> back up. >> you ate my lunch. >> sit right here for a second. >> oh, boy.

>> sit down. let me tell you something. you need to respect your mommy and daddy, and you need to watch your tone. you understand me? >> school time. >> great job. you're such a cool cat. jaylen, go get your jacket, and your mom will put your jacket on. there gu. great job. >> i'm definitely at a crossroad in my career right now because i'm thinking more about the raising of my boys. >> i'm going put you on the bus. what do you mean what am i doing? >> at this point i'm really not the dad that i want to be. >> love you. love you. love you. >> looking for a black suv involved in a shooting.

>> an suv just -- >> shots fired and a vehicle fleeing the scene. an all too familiar call in this neighborhood. >> when you hear your spider sensors go off. the hair on on the back of your neck stand up. you expect the worse. >> for the night gang unit once again tracking down the gun is the objective. >> this could be our guy. >> you trying for it? >> you don't have your seat belt on, all right? that's a $25 ticket. no, no, let me finish. >> turn the vehicle off. turn the vehicle off. >> what's that? >> you got something else to say? >> do you have a problem, dude? >> i'm telling you. >> the passenger is the one right now. >> calm yourself down, dude. >> this vehicle is matching the description of a vehicle that just committed a violent crime. >> why you acting so -- step outside of the car, y'all. >> the last thing you want to do is lose control of a situation that could possibly get you

killed. keep looking at me up and down like that. >> no matter what part of boston you are from, whether you are a white irish guy or a black kid from dorchester, everyone has that edge to them. >> yeah. he is going to -- no, sir. stwloo the kid might have a chip on his shoulder, but he is not who they're looking for. >> you used good discretion because i know i probably would have had to write him up. >> oh, dude. you know, like just -- >> i think fear is what motivates you. my biggest fear for my boys is for them to be in this lifestyle that nothing productive could ever come from. >> have a stare-off. dude, i can't even believe you. you're a good kid. like, be that. ♪

>> hey. >> we mean bits. we got shirts made and parade around here. >> the boston police department's annual fitness challenge features teams from across the force, but for the fugitive and gang units, it's a grudge match. >> you're got to extend your hips. not like that, bro. >> don't worry about my team. worry about your team. >> i'm trying on help you guys out. >> mike, brian, winston. okay. you can make your speech. >> it was a wonderful year. i hope the team just makes it. there's a lot to do, so i hope they just do a good job. >> all right. >> thanks. >> one, two, three. >> gavin! . >> nice. >> gav sain kid from our neighborhood that has been through so much. all the different chemotherapy

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>> the boston police department's annual fitness challenge pits unit against unit. >> the gang and fugitive units, it's a war for a year's worth of bragging rights. >> move it outside as well. who is coming behind him? >> come on. come on. >> it's all ours. it's all over. we win. we win. >> are you kidding me, dude? >> it's a rap. >> i'm going sit down.

>> dude. >> i can't do it. i'm done. >> gavin. >> good to see you. >> i met the commissioner. >> if you're like the boss of the boss, september that like the mayor? >> no. the mayor is the boss of the boss of the boss. >> to be able to meet gavin, he has shown me, like, what's truly important in this life, what's truly important in your career is, like, you immediate to focus your efforts and your energy on people like gavin. >> it's my distinct privilege and honor to have you guys -- i can't thank you enough for what you do on a daily basis out there on the streets, you know, to keep us and the rest of our community safe. >> i don't think i always move what i was fwog do growing up. i was always around the police

department, and i really like the way they led their lives. with so many guys in the neighborhood, they'll look out pow. >> he wouldn't get there without the help. >> i want to thank everybody coming out. >> thank you very much. >> somebody up there now. i see the lights. >> in the bromly heath housing project, the unit is still on edge following the shooting. >> we're very familiar with martin luther king reply gangs in that area. retaliation is imminent. >> you supposed to be out?

>> somebody passed something to somebody. >> i observed what i thought to be one of the males chamber a round of a firearm. >> as soon as we open the door -- >> they all took off in different directions. i locked in on one. >> get on the ground. >> i just chased him until i caught him. when i tackled him and flipped him over, i realized that it was like a kid, like a baby. it was almost leak i was seeing my own son. why did you run? >> i didn't know who you were, man. >> how old are you? >> 15. >> i checked him real good. >> no gun. it just pains me that he is kind of in that lifestyle already and he is following that path and he has no aspirations to really get off that path. >> i'm hoping you're going to learn from your mistakes. >> wrau.

>> you know i can do that every day. >> with no weapon recovered at the scene, the young man is released into the custody of his father. >> policing is not just putting the handcuffs on somebody. you have to be willing to kind of walk them through the steps that someone in their family probably hasn't really walked them through. >> are we heading -- >> roxbury, looking for joseph cooper. we have a unit on surveillance already sitting on a house, so he is with who they think is his new girlfriend, and she's actually wanted as well. they're soigt a house. >> you know, he is the same guy i talked about when i shot it out with the cops and -- >> exactly. >> fugitive suspect joseph cooper isn't doing himself any

favors. violating restraining order led to a confidential informant tip offing the police where he might be hiding, and that's brought them to the lawrence avenue area. >> you see someone with dreadlocks, could that be him? >> that guy right there? >> i say no. >> there's a guy that looks like him right there. right height. >> there's a guy standing at the corner of the l and the b. he has dreadlocks on. white t-shirt. >> he got -- >> tony was right there too, so he probably saw the same guy getting out of the car. what kind of car? call out the plate. >> he is in the -- jersey plate. >> sounds like that's going to be him. we're going to try to do him right at the point.

if you can take the rear bumper. >> try to just make the -- >> coming up right at quincy. i will try to box him in >> those situations that the adrenaline is moving. there is a violent suspect inside the vehicle. >> go, go, we're going to box him in here. >> and somehow you got to try to stop that car. [ male announcer ] not all toothbrushes are the same. oral-b pro-health toothbrushes have crisscross bristles

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go right, go, go, we're going to box him in right here. >> hey, give me a hand! show your [ bleep ] hands, show your hands. everybody your hands. >> this is a guy who said he was going to shoot it out with police. all those things are going through your head. >> right passenger, right rear passenger, shut the car off. >> joseph k can upa bragged if the cops ever caught him, he wouldn't go down without a fight. but at a busy intersection of roxbury, he has been apprehended

with no shots fire. >> you guys want to give him enough choice? you got anything on you, my man? >> it's a good feeling. it's a satisfaction because you know you have apprehended him. at the end of the day, we're trying to protect the neighborhoods that we grew up in. >> good job. >> thank you. we appreciate your help. >> it's working. >> i love -- i love hanging out with you guys. i like the outside work. >> outside of work? okay. >> outside of work. >> i was thinking earlier, when you go into work, it's really only four hours before the kids go to bed. it's just like the worst four hours of the day. >> you know, when they leave, oh, i know. >> it's crazy. >> we've been around each other all day. they're crazy off the wall. and you guys run around playing cops and robbers all day.

>> or just sit in a car and download music. >> now you know what we do. >> i feel like you guys get off easy to work at night. >> why? >> because we have -- like she was saying, at that bad hour. we're always the mean mommies, especially me. >> you know something? you're right. >> so let me get this straight. dealing with the city's worst murderers, killers, gang bangers -- >> i'll switch places with you a few nights. >> me too. >> i would love it. >> would you guys think about going to days? our kids are the age, they need you guys. when we pick them up, where is daddy, where is daddy, where is daddy. i always have to item him, he is at work, caden. i feel like i'm a single parent. >> toast to days? >> no, let's not jump the gun. let's toast to considering. considering days. considering days. >> and helping out.

♪ >> i love you. >> mister! >> sometimes on the night shift, i encounter boys that are probably only nine, ten years older than my boys. it just makes me strive to be that much stronger of a father, because if i have any breath in my body, my boys would never be out on the streets doing what i see every single night. whether it means i need to cut back on overtime and working in order to be that father that i need to be, to be around my boys and raise them to be men, that's

what i will do. you can't really put a price tag on your -- on your children's future, especially when you're dealing with young men. because, i mean, let's face it. the world is lacking positive men. >> what up, cuz? >> what's up? >> first day, baby. >> getting up early in the morning? >> no. not a fan of it. >> you didn't bring any coffee? >> why would i do that? >> it's the first day on days. >> okay. and it's your first day on days. you could have brought me coffee. >> after a lot of thought and deliberation, terrique and miles have transferred to days. >> good morning, good morning, good morning. >> hey! >> i guess you can't beat 'em, join em. >> can't beat 'em, join 'em. >> i got to put my [ bleep ] for a foot chase. >> last time you guys lost a foot chase, oh! >> why is it going to be like

that? i thought we were going to be welcomed with open arms. >> exactly. >> role call. >> okay. robinson? araujo. >> yes, sir. >> connelly? and then we have our newest additions today, lawton and chandler. finally saw the light literally and figuratively. try and take care of these guys. teach them some police work. >> they might get you -- >> i definitely feel like it's that time to be the more tranquil soccer dad. there is a bigger goal than myself at hand, which is my family. >> you got a lot of rules. >> dude. can i command? >> jeez. >> i don't know if this is going to work. >> oh, it's going to work. we're going make it work. this is a marriage.

[ barking ] search warrant today for the gangs unit. suspect is -- four young children in the apartment. 8 to 11. there is a gun inside, but we're just concerned about the four kids. ♪